| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations (color). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Library of the writtten word,
1874-4834 ;
volume 83. The handpress world ;
volume 64
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Library of the written word. Handpress world ; v. 64.
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| Note |
This book has its origins in two conferences: Forms and Formats: Experimenting with print, 1695-1815, (8-9 September 2014) held in Oxford at the Bodleian Library, Jesus College Fellows Library, and Oriel College Senior Library and Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge: Industry Practices and Public Interests in Great Britain from the 18th Century to the Present, (7-8 October 2016) held at the Maison de la Recherche, University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3 in 2017. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape - the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes - to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. The transdisciplinary volume edited by Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in 11 essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 The Shape of Knowledge -- Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto -- Part 1: [In] forming Professional Networks -- 2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early-Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity -- James Raven -- 3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright -- Jeffrey Hopes -- 4 Entering into Copyright: Author-Publisher Transactions in the Stationers' Company Records' -- Rebecca Schoff Curtin -- 5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- Isabella Alexander -- 6 The Vauxhall Affray : Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print -- Yvonne Cornish -- Part 2: [Per] forming Knowledge in Print -- 7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650-1800 -- Katherine Parker -- 8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers -- Craig Spence -- 9 Compositors' Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography -- James P. Ascher -- 10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books: The Remediation of The Beginning, Progress and End of Man into Metamorphosis, or a Transformation of Pictures: With Poetical Explanations for the Amusement of Children -- Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- 11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus -- David Duff -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History.
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Book industries and trade. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Printing -- Great Britain -- History.
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Printing. |
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Books -- Great Britain -- History.
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Books. |
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Communication in learning and scholarship -- Great Britain -- History.
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Communication in learning and scholarship. |
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Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
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Books and reading. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Ferlier, Louisiane, editor.
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Miyamoto, Bénédicte, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Forms, formats and the circulation of knowledge Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004433663 (DLC) 2020023497 |
| ISBN |
9004433678 electronic book |
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9789004433670 (electronic book) |
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9789004433663 hardcover ; acid-free paper |
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900443366X |
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